Insurrections - Stories

Informationen zum Autor Rion Amilcar Scott teaches English at Bowie State University. He earned an MFA at George Mason University, where he won both the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award and a Completion Fellowship. His work has appeared in publications such as the Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, PANK , The Rumpus, Fiction International, the Washington City Paper, The Toast, and Confrontation. Klappentext A suicidal father looks to an older neighbor-and the Cookie Monster-for salvation and sanctuary as his life begins to unravel. A man seeking to save his estranged, drug-addicted brother from the city's underbelly confronts his own mortality. A chess match between a girl and her father turns into a master class about life, self-realization, and pride: ""Now hold on little girl. . . . Chess is like real life. The white pieces go first so they got an advantage over the black pieces."" These are just

Product details

• Authors: Rion Amilcar Scott
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780813168180
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-6818-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: University Press of Kentucky N; University Press of Kentucky N
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature